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Rapture Update & Alien Agenda
by Rick Wynn
At God’s appointed time, Jesus will remove the body of Christ from the earth. “...Only
he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way” (2 Thessalonians 2:7).
Only the Holy Spirit has the power to hold back the full unleashing of iniquity and
Satan. God’s removal of the restrainer is the rapture of the church. When Christ
removes the saved church body from the earth, the restrainer will be “taken out of the
way.” Thus, God will remove all restraints against all sin, whereby the fullness of evil
from the depths of hell will be unleashed upon the earth. At such time, a purely evil,
satanically inspired, rebellion against God and His people (converters) will begin.
Consider for a moment how difficult it is today to get right with God due to worldly
distractions and sin. No one can imagine how incredibly difficult it will be for people to
seek Christ once all evil and temptation have been unleashed upon the world from the
bowels of hell. Remember, the restrainer will have been removed. Satan’s entire
kingdom of evil, hell, and demons will stand against the people’s every effort to pledge
themselves to Christ.
The Bible gives explicit details about the signs of the time where Jesus would return.
Though Jesus said that only the Father knew specifically when He would return, every
Christian on earth should be living in anticipation and expectation of Jesus’ arrival. Paul
instructed us to watch and be sober. The rapture can happen at any given moment for
we know that according to the Bible it will precede the tribulation. The world currently
exists in the time and is displaying the signs prophesied in the Bible relative to the
return of Christ. The disciples asked Jesus what shall be the sign of His coming and the
end of the world (Matthew 24:3), and Jesus described the signs to watch for, saying:
• Many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
• You shall hear of wars and rumors of wars.
• Nations will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
• There will be famines, pestilence, and earthquakes, all over the world, which are the
beginning of sorrows.
• The world will deliver you up to be afflicted and killed, for you will be hated by all
nations for my name’s sake.
• Many people will be offended, and will betray one another, hating one another.
• Many false prophets will rise up and will deceive many.
• Sin will dominate the world and the love of many will grow cold. (Matthew 24:5-12).
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The rapture will happen suddenly, faster than you can blink. According to Paul, “...in
the twinkling of an eye... and we shall be changed” (1 Corinthians 15:52). There will
be evidence all over the world of a mass disappearance. Everyone will know directly or
indirectly of at least one person who disappeared during the rapture. Those caught up
will be the body of Christ, every true Christian. They will be the few that found the
path of righteousness and persevered in tenacious diligence to stay on that path by
seeking the kingdom of God always, doing the will of the Father. At His coming, they
are the ones Christ will know because they lived holy lives with repentant hearts.
Immediately following the rapture, national leaders around the world will conspire to
deceive the world by convincing the world that the rapture never took place.
Somehow, they will explain this mass disappearance away and the world will believe
them. How is this possible? Even today, the world is already inclined to hear, believe,
and follow just about anything leaders, governments, and other organized structures of
power, such as world media, will dictate. Consider how desensitized the world is today
toward crime, pornography, adultery, fornication, injustice, etc. How did the world
become this way? How eager is the world to believe the media over the Word of God?
How eager is the world to follow the man, his traditions and doctrines as opposed to
the Word of God?
Man following his own doctrines and abiding in his traditions have made the Word of
God a non-effect. Professing Christians in particular have become like the Pharisees
whereas they have esteemed the “letter” to such a degree that they have literally
closed their eyes to the realities of life surrounding them. Those realities are chockfull
of perils and evils that were prophesized in the Bible. When Jesus preached on earth,
He exposed the evils in that day and in our day. He diligently tore down the people’s
traditions and laws. He never commanded us to close our eyes to the evils in the
world, but to be keenly aware of them—not join or participate in them, but to be awake
and aware. Because people close their eyes to such evils having allowed their eyes,
ears, and hearts to be desensitized, they walk in the same kind of deception as the
Pharisees who did not recognize the Messiah. Today, few have the “revelation” of
Christ’s imminent return including those who are excited about the rapture. They
watch for the date of His return, but are not actually watching for Christ Himself. They
cannot see the conspiracies against them by those in government over them, in
addition to those who control that government, such as the powers that be in England,
the Pope and Vatican, and even he that controls the Vatican and the Pope, “Black
Pope.” Black what? Look it up, the information is out there. Recently, the Vatican
announced that aliens are our brothers and sisters and if that wasn’t enough, also
suggested that they could even be benevolent beings. It certainly doesn’t take a genius
to figure out what’s coming next folks.
We know that Satan is the root of evil, but it doesn’t occur to most people “how” he
seeds evil and deception into the world. He utilizes a structured regime called
“government.” This organized administration if you will, in one form is the hierarchy of
power in world government. Does this surprise you? True, our country was founded
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upon biblical principles but those principles have long since been done away with.
When is the last time you remember our government or any world government truly
acknowledging and obeying the will of God? In the second chapter of Daniel, he
describes a kingdom made of a mixture of iron and clay. This mixture exists today. In
actuality, iron and clay do not mix. Personally, I also believe that the UFO abductions
over the centuries have played a strong role in this mixture. There are well-intentioned
bodies in the government today, men and women of integrity and honesty, but there
are also men and women in government representing something else and their agenda
is sinister. Their infiltration has all but taken over government in every capacity, not
only here in America, but around the world. This mixture is a division.
The higher in hierarchy government goes the more diabolical in nature it has to be
because of its proximity to Satan who hates God and all of His creation. The
government today is not building lives and edifying life, it is killing the innocent by the
billions worldwide. Between year 2000 and 2003, 1.31 million slaughters of infants
were carried out in the United States alone by legalized abortion. (The Alan Guttmacher
Institute, “Abortion Incidence and Services In the United States in 2000.” Perspectives
on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Vol. 35, (Jan/Feb 2003)). In 2004 alone, there
were an estimated 1,293,000 abortions performed according to the Alan Guttmacher
Institute (Planned Parenthood) and the National Right To Life Committee (NRLC). The
statistics today are even worse than four years ago. The list of these evil endeavors in
addition to many others stretching back for centuries is endless, yet the people,
including many “Christians” are blinded by this world system.
When the world leaders say that the rapture never took place, it will seem very
reasonable that it didn’t. If they should even dare to say that the disappearances were
due to alien beings, UFOs etc., the people will whole-heartedly receive even this lie.
This set-up in addition to a seemingly valid reason to relinquish our freedom and control
to a single world order has already been seeded into the minds of the people. Consider
another example in addition to the Vatican’s announcement that all is well concerning
our “alien friends.” When Ronald Regan was in office as President, he made a very
bold statement during a speech concerning the possibility of an alien attack. The idea
was that all the people of the world would ban together and turn over all powers to the
highest leaders or “leader” where then the world could defend itself against such an
attack.
Reagan not only spoke about such a possibility once, but in three separate speeches.
The first was December 4, 1985 at Fallston High School in Maryland where he spoke
about his first Summit with General Secretary Gorbechev in Geneva. He spoke about
his conversation with Gorbechev about the possibility of an alien invasion. Gorbechev
confirmed this conversation during an important speech he made on February 17, 1987,
at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, to the Central Committee of the USSR's
Communist Party. Regan again spoke of an alien invasion when he spoke to the
General Assembly of the United Nations on September 21, 1987. He said,
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“In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites
all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make
us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences
worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.”
Now wait a minute, you would think that the public would have eventually caught on to
what Regan was actually saying, yet it seems that no one did. Do you see the irony of
desensitization here? A man with the greatest authority in the country mentions the
possibility of an attack from aliens from another world and no one bats an eye. Keep in
mind also that for decades the government had already been debunking any possibility
that such alien life forms exist. Very few even noticed the contradiction. Update: did
you know that the U.S. Government in addition to governments around the world is
now declassifying and releasing documents pertaining to UFO phenomenon? Did you
also know that their has been a proliferation of UFO sightings around the country just
recently, which some consider unprecedented since the history of sightings—what’s
with all the UFO’s lately?) Here is one captured on video just this year that blew me
away, yet we should not be surprised:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x451zd_a-brand-new-video-of-a-ufo-sighting_extreme
Whether this (UFO’s) is true or hoax really doesn’t matter, what matters is that people
are being seeded for a great deception that is coming. I believe this is the kind of thing
people can expect to see and much more in the very near future.
Only an exceptional few would even think to consider Ronald Regan’s angle because
the minds of the majority of people have been conditioned and manipulated to accept
without question the idea of an alien invasion even in lieu of being conditioned to
believe that there is no such thing as aliens from other worlds. It’s as if world
conditioning have cause people’s minds to split in half where the mind believes two
opposites that cancels each other out. Thus when certain things about UFOs, aliens, or
anything for that matter, transgressing the Word of God is presented to the people it
doesn’t register. The same phenomenon happens in the realms of politics, education,
religion, and science. Come against any of these things, which people’s minds are
buried in by comparing them to the Word of God and watch what happens. You will
find yourself taking cover from all the retaliation. The majority wholeheartedly receives
news from a source of authority, but without any critical thought and usually in total
nonchalance. As if in a trance, the people hear it and then go right on about their
business as if nothing was said as all. When you really think about it, it’s downright
spooky.
For decades, the people in the world have been readily conditioned to believe the
conspirators without question. Let’s consider further the proliferation of propaganda
and media entertainment concerning alien and UFO phenomena. The public has been
bombarded over the past decades with coverage concerning UFOs and aliens rather
true or hoax. In addition, the movie industry has pumped out a barrage of television
shows, movies and even cartoons dating back since the 1950’s. To name a few,
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consider the movie “V,” which ran in a series from 1983-1985, Alien Nation, another
series that ran during the 1980’s. More on the list are Alien Siege, Alien, Predator, Star
Wars, Independence Day and War of the Worlds, which both depicted precisely what
Regan had hypothesized in his speeches, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Invaders
from Mars, Mars Attacks, and many more.
Perhaps you remember or are familiar with the December 30, 1938 radio broadcast of
the War of the Worlds by Orson Welles. Though a staged event, this particular radio
show broadcasted a news message that the earth was under attack by extraterrestrials
from the planet Mars. Millions of listeners believed the story causing fear and mayhem
across the nation. Can you understand the deeper implications of this concerning what
people are so willing to believe or not believe according to what those in authority say?
Christians should know better, yet even many professing Christians will absorb every lie
they speak. Deceptions pertaining to the rapture abounds. The UFO phenomenon is
but one of those conspiracies. I believe that UFOs are real. I believe that some
governments (in particular the U.S.) have in their arsenals back-engineered UFOs from
captured crafts. Mostly, I believe this UFO and alien agenda is demonic.
People are being conditioned today to believe the conspirators lies concerning the
rapture tomorrow. In addition, there are churches and web-based ministries existing
today who flat out debunk the idea of the rapture or is spreading confusion about it and
their gaining huge audiences. Those who do not seek God will be deceived including
those who operate in the five-fold ministry. You may be surprised at the number in
such ministries who actually do not seek God or actually study the Word, but only listen
to and heed the words of others in ministry who teach in error. Whatever the enemy
inevitably says will seem to make absolute logical sense to them.
The majority will agree with the leaders tomorrow just as they agree with the biblically
unfounded traditions, trends, and conventions of the world today. The climatic
summation of all the enemy’s ploys against God’s people was designed for just this
period in time. The world has been deceived in order to believe and follow the spirit of
the antichrist in the end times so that the people may rebel against God along with
Satan.
“He (the antichrist) will use every kind of wicked deception to fool those who are on
their way to destruction, because they refuse to love and accept the truth that would
save them. So God will send great deception upon them, and they will believe all these
lies. Then they will be condemned for not believing the truth and for enjoying the evil
they do” (2 Thessalonians 2:10-12, NLT). [Parenthetical emphasis mine]
Many churches today are sending out messages about the rapture, but their messages
comprise a mixture of truth and lies causing confusion. Some spout a pre-tribulation
rapture and though I agree that their will be a pre-tribulation rapture many who teach it
subscribe to what they have either heard or conjectured themselves and thus their
arguments stray from Scripture. The problem created by the majority of those who
believe in the pre-trib rapture is that they believe that practically every churchgoer, in
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addition to every person who calls himself a Christian will be snatched up. In other
words, all or the vast majority of believers whether born again or not will be removed
from the earth. This false belief creates the illusion that all is well with all professing
believers despite their sinful hearts.
Some say mid-tribulation rapture, yet have a poor understanding of what the tribulation
will actually entail. What would be the point of God beating His bride before the
marriage? Then there are the post-tribulation subscribers who obviously believe that
God’s people have actually been appointed to wrath despite the fact that God said the
opposite (1 Thessalonians 5:9).
The tribulation event will escalate into such a monumental devastation and cataclysm
that even Jesus said without His intervention no flesh anywhere on the planet would
survive. At the mid point, He instructed the Jews to run, not look back, to the
designated place for safety. Will the true church be hiding out in the mountains
(perhaps Petra) with the Jews in that day? No. At this point, they will have already
been raptured. New converts will have already been captured, martyred, or in hiding
themselves. Those converted to Christ after the rapture must endure until their end
(Matthew 10:22; 24:13, Hebrews 3:14). God reveals in the book of Revelation that the
saints will be given into the hands of the beast where he will overcome and kill them.
“And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and
power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations” (Revelation 13:7).
The Word does not say that the converted will be raptured out of the hands of the
beast. Those converted after the rapture must now endure—until their end—every
plague and disaster that will come upon the earth. All the superficialities of the church
today that the majority of believers are caught up in will perhaps be “burned” off
through persecution and tribulation. Those who claimed that they loved and honored
God, but refused to restructure their minds to Christ and obey His will, prior to the
rapture would now be proven by their own words. “For by thy words thou shalt be
justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned” (Matthew 12:37). Will they be
willing to die for the sake of their love and devotion to Christ, as Jesus was willing to
die for them? Honestly, for the majority of them, I doubt it. I believe a great multitude
(aside from the remnant of Jews) of them will be lost forever and others such as
today’s Muslims in addition to others who knew not Christ at all will convert and be
saved (Matthew 8:12). Jesus would have already vomited up the Laodicean church
(Revelation 3:16). Therefore, I seriously doubt that He would then go back and eat His
own vomit. They were given the opportunity to escape the wrath, but they refused it
and turned their backs on redemption.
Lastly, some preach that there will be no rapture at all, which implies that Christianity is
not only useless, but also powerless. If there is no rapture, then what exactly is the
blessed hope? What good is salvation if all the true Christians will experience God’s
wrath regardless only to then be loved into his kingdom at the start of the millennium
whereas then they immediately return to earth to rule and reign with Jesus for a
thousand years. Does this even make scriptural sense?
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Jesus said five wise virgins went into the bride chamber and five unwise virgins did not,
yet He classified them all as “virgins.” There are wise Christians, and then there are
ignorant Christians. He said that only few (the wise) would find the path of
righteousness. Jesus made a startling statement saying that in the last days, just as it
were in the days of Noah, the attitudes, disposition and disdain in the people’s hearts
toward Him, repentance, and salvation would be the same. His statement was inclusive
of the majority of professing Christians today. What is interesting also is that in Noah’s
day there was the infusion between fallen angles and the daughters of men. The alien
agenda today seems to corroborate with the ancient texts concerning the fallen angels
in Noah’s day. The mixture of iron and clay mentioned in the book of Daniel chapter 2
could be relative to a mixture of fallen angels and humans through genetic
manipulation. For what purpose you ask? The same purpose as before to create a
world of hybrid creatures as opposed to the new creatures in Christ at the onset of
being born again.
“And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the
kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch
as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of
iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. And
whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with
the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not
mixed with clay” (Daniel 2:41-43).
Think of why God destroyed the world during the age of Noah. What was Satan trying
to do then? Is this still not his agenda today and will God not destroy the world again
for the same reason? It may not be as far-fetched as most think that aliens “are”
walking among us. They are intermixed in our societies and governments around the
world. As the evils were in Noah’s day resulting from the seed of the fallen ones, their
seed from the mixture of those abducted and humans exists today. Abductions are
happening today at an unprecedented rate. Guess what, your leaders may not be who
you “think” they are. Satan is a master of deceit, folks. Just a thought, but what if all
governments at the highest levels have been infiltrated? Is it really such an outlandish
thought when you see what’s happening not only in our backyard America, but also
literally around the world? Hmmm, makes you wonder, doesn’t it? Christians tend to
forget that one of Satan’s greatest ploys is to play “both” sides of a given spectrum.
We see an evil and dash to the opposite side or extreme believing this is where justice
or even salvation lies. Wrong! The narrow righteous path is just that. Narrow. Step
too far to either side and deception has you.
On the day of the rapture, people will be going “to and fro” in their daily life routines.
There will be people walking about, sitting in coffee shops and having conversations on
their cell phones. They will be on their jobs. Families will be on vacations at
recreational parks. Newlyweds will be on their honeymoons. People will be driving in
their cars, taking busses, cabs, trains and airplanes. Some will be home watching
television, sleeping, cooking, eating, playing with their children, fighting, and banking,
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shopping, and delivering. People will be in the gyms working out. They may be
drinking and dancing in the nightclubs. Some will be in the act of adultery, and
fornication. Some will be making love with their spouses. Some may even be in church
worshiping with their hearts far removed from their lips. In short, as you see life today
it is exactly how it will be when Jesus comes. There will be no warning or noticeable
interruption for those who are not watching and anticipating His arrival. The majority
who will be left behind will have no awareness of Jesus descent upon the clouds to
rapture His people.
The Bible correlates the voice of God to lightening, thunder a mighty Shofar, and a
trump. When the rapture call comes, the saints in Christ will hear the voice of the
archangel, and the trump of God. Perhaps everyone else will hear tremendous
thunder. In an instant, there will be simultaneous auto accidents on roads and
expressways around the world as drivers will vanish. Children in car seats will
disappear right before their parent’s eyes. Passengers of transportation vehicles all
around the world will vanish. Trains will derail from collisions and airplanes will fall
from the sky because there will be no pilots to continue the flight in addition to some
air traffic controllers who will vanish. In a blink of an eye, husbands will see their wives
and children gone. Wives will see their husbands and children vanish. Sons and
daughters will see their parents vanish. People will see strangers instantly disappear
right before them. Children will simultaneously disappear on playgrounds and at
schools all around the world. The whole world will become a state of pandemonium,
fear, and chaos. The people left behind from all over the world will search frantically
and mourn for their loved ones who have vanished without a trace.
Though there will be a mass vanishing of saints on this planet, in overall comparison to
the populated world, the number of missing people will actually be significantly small.
Perhaps, the number will be equivalent to those saved in Noah’s day in comparison to
the population of the earth at that time. At any rate, when this disappearance occurs,
the people will believe the lies the leaders will exhibit in explaining away those missing
resulting from the rapture.
News teams and media networks will give coverage to this event across the globe, but
no one will have an explanation. When the explanation finally arrives, it will be a
massive lie. The irony is that the world will actually assume that those who vanished
are the ones who need the saving. They will believe that those who were raptured are
dead, lost, and without hope. Apostate church leaders and members who know about
the rapture will even deny it because “they” are still here. They will be unable to
comprehend the idea of rapture having taken place leaving them behind. I cannot
imagine what a time that will be for such people, especially the leaders. The majority
of those left behind will have no awareness of the wrath of God that is about to come
upon them. Thus, we can compare the rapture to the day that Noah and his family
entered the ark. Still, no one believed the inevitable end, until the rain actually came
seven days later. So too, will it be in this generation after the rapture. For seven
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years, the people in the world will refuse to believe that Jesus will come to set up His
kingdom on earth, where He will reign for a thousand years.
Perhaps at the time of the rapture or very soon after, the second seal will be broken
(Revelations 6:3-4) and a worldwide nuclear war will break out where about half of the
earth’s population will die. This will be yet another avenue for the world leaders to
explain away those raptured. Perhaps they will say they were casualties of war.
Perhaps this war could be a “feigned” alien invasion that Ronald Regan addressed to
the nations or the prophesied war of Gog and Magog in the book of Ezekiel chapters
38-39. I believe that the most major deception told however will be that aliens did
away with those who disappeared. This tactic will cause the people to embrace the
idea of turning over all powers to the one world government to combat the aliens. This
ploy however will be the catapult of even greater terrors brought upon them by the
antichrist. The warning spoken to the world during the days prior to the great flood,
the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and throughout history is the same warning
God is still giving today—repent!
God has sent His messengers into the world to proclaim the gospel and teach the
blessed hope of the return of Christ, but like in Noah’s day, the world is not listening.
Even the majority of professing Christians today have ignored the truth. Globally, the
majority of ministries are not preaching, teaching nor receiving the message that Jesus
is coming. Like the five unwise virgins Jesus spoke of in the Book of Matthew, believers
are not preparing themselves for Christ’s return. He said that He would come like a
thief in the night for those who consider not the signs of the times of His coming. The
signs Jesus spoke of in conjunction to Paul’s warnings are all around us today, there is
no denying it. The Apostle Paul also said that Jesus would come like a thief in the
night, but only to those who are not watching and waiting for His return (1
Thessalonians 5:4-5).
“But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; And
shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; The lord
of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he
is not aware of, And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the
hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matthew 24:48-51).
Believers, who are actually “saved,” will not be surprised at Jesus’ coming. They
actually have a relationship with God and therefore anticipate His arrival, even today
and everyday (1 Thessalonians 5:1-5). The unprepared do not realize even now that
the Kingdom of God is directly upon them, they are not “looking” for the return of
Christ. Instead, they are caught up in worldly matters and their personal agendas.
They will be utterly shocked that Jesus came and went leaving them behind, for they
thought they were a “shoe-in” to the kingdom of God. Aside from children, Jesus is
coming only for those who are watching for Him.
People, the days are coming to a close and the Kingdom of God is at hand. For those
of us who are watching and praying, we know that any day Christ may come. When He
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arrives, I pray that we are all ready. What I find interesting about the ten virgins is
that it was not until the moment that the Groom actually arrived that five of them
realized their oil had burned out. Up until that moment, they believed that all was
well. They had allowed themselves to become distracted and they looked away from
the appearing. The distraction caused them to forget about the oil in their lamps. As
they went about their daily business, routines, and concerns about worldly matters,
they actually neglected their relationship with Christ. Is that what you are doing
today? Who is getting more of your time, especially now. Is it your Lord and Savior or
your own agendas and matters of the world?
Only Christ can save you. Are you worthy in His eyes to escape what’s coming? Do
you allow your mind and your activities to stray you away from that which is truly
important? You had better pay attention to what you are focusing upon for whatever it
is, you will get. I love the date setters who by the Word of God search such things as
the rapture out (Proverbs 25:2) because regardless of them being right or wrong “date
wise,” it causes those paying attention to straighten up and get right with God. The
actual date that Jesus comes however is not important. What is important is being
prepared for that moment, that twinkling, which He will return. The season of return,
which Jesus and Paul through inspiration of the Holy Spirit described, is now here.
Who’s actually ready? Well, we will certainly find out soon who was actually watching,
praying and sober.
Lift up your heads everyone for your redemption is near, even at the door!
YBIC,
Rick
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